Top 100 The Scars Quotes
#1. Hide the scars, let us pretend. If you burry deep enough, no one can find them.
S.L. Northey
#2. The power to heal the scars begins with hope.
Shilpa Menon
#3. Never again will I justify the scars just because I loved the person holding the knife.
Steve Maraboli
#4. Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible; and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.
Alice Hoffman
#5. But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing over. I can feel the promise of a new beginning.
Aimee Friedman
#6. Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.
Oliver Cromwell
#7. Our past is what shapes us, the scars it leaves behind mold us, and what we do with the shit that's left over is what defines us.
Gail McHugh
#9. Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can't be washed away and of things that can never be undone.
Alice Hoffman
#10. What happens when all we have in common are the scars on our wrists?
Caroline Greyling
#11. The wounds were hard to heal, and once they did heal, they left behind the ugly reminder of the scars, those little cracks where fear enjoyed building its den.
Irina Serban
#12. He looked down at his hands - resting on his knees - flexing the fingers, the veins and sinews standing out clearly amidst the scars. Killer's hands, I thought, knowing they could choke the life from me in a few seconds.
Anthony Ryan
#13. I no longer look for the good in people. I search for the real...because while good is often dressed in fake clothing, real is naked and proud no matter the scars.
Unknown
#14. All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.
Alethea Kontis
#15. The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.
Patrick Califia
#16. So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreathe my head,
So shall I faint and show the scars,
Until this case, this clogging mould,
Be smithied all to kingly gold.
John Masefield
#17. Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks
For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.
Nora Roberts
#18. I don't want those things from you. I love your faults and imperfections. Your kind heart. The scars that match mine, and the struggles to find ourselves. I want your humanness. Nothing else.
A.G. Howard
#20. We'd go to bed furious with each other, and then she'd wake me in the middle of the night and come and lie on my bed and we'd talk for hours, about nothing and everything, and she'd let me touch the scars on her stomach - the scars from where they cut me out of her.
Melina Marchetta
#21. I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.
Paulo Coelho
#22. I don't mind the scars." He shrugged, his eyes taking on a mischievous spark. "They hold better memories now than they used to." Scarlet
Marissa Meyer
#23. What once was broken can be fixed." Boone lifted the angel with the number eighteen at her feet. I could still see every crack from the break, but she was fixed. "It'll always bear the scars, but at least it's whole again.
Nicole Williams
#24. It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I'd look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.
Sabrina Chapadjiev
#25. Innocence is doomed to die a senseless death at our own hands, a casualty of the mistakes we can never undo. So we lay to rest the wide-eyed wonder we once thrived upon, replacing it with the scars of which we never speak, too knotted for any amount of technology to repair.
Neal Shusterman
#26. I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Angela Carter
#27. Time heals the wounds of the past,
Apology, forgiveness, and acceptance
does lighten the scars.
Rhoendyl RCruz
#28. Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#29. He bears wounds only seen with the heart and the scars that have formed over the years still pain him.
Regan Walker
#30. [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.
Edward Teller
#31. Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.
Jonathan Tropper
#32. Find your passion and let it shine for the world to see. Nobody will see the scars you endure, only the brilliance of who you are. Let that be how you're judged.
J.M. Macchiavelli
#33. China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.
Jung Chang
#34. Be proud of the scars in your soul. They will help and teach you.
Paulo Coelho
#36. And I love you because you're the only one that sees me, not the scars or the h-history, just me.
J.M. Madden
#37. He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.
Marisha Pessl
#38. Most of all, I think of how much I've needed all of those things, and of the scars I now bear as testament to my weakness.
J. Kenner
#39. Wrinkled, wrinkled little star ... hope they never see the scars.
Meryl Streep
#40. We tried not to look at each other for a minute, smiling each time we did. Except for the tiny scars on her wrists, she seemed perfect to me, and so I loved the scars, because they meant that I could save her from something, and save myself
Chris Fuhrman
#41. Wounds may heal, but the scars remain.
Reyna Pryde
#42. Home is part of us. It's in the scars we have on our knees and elbows, in the memories that surface when we sleep. I don't think you can ever really leave.
Kristin Hannah
#43. I reached out and placed my hand on the book and thought maybe someday I wouldn't need the bruises or the scars anymore. Maybe someday it would be all right for the scars to go away.
Han Nolan
#44. I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.
Ashly Lorenzana
#45. He was beautiful in a way that hurt me, but it was the sweetest pain I ever knew, better even than the scars I took on my naming day.
Ann Aguirre
#46. Even though the wounds will heal the scars will remain.
Allen Walker
#47. But there was no sign of the bomb in the market. Like all other tragedies, it had been covered up; the market had gone into a huddle of concrete and commerce around the blast, paving over the scars like a jungle coming back over a burnt field
Karan Mahajan
#48. Your past was the same as your skin: with you for life, both the proverbial beauty marks . . . and the scars.
J.R. Ward
#49. Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.
James Altucher
#50. Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.
Markus Zusak
#51. The only thing that can last longer than the scars we all carry, is the love that makes it bearable. Beautiful and broken, we are beloved.
Perci T. Brooks
#52. My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.
Sophie Ristelhueber
#53. And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.
Jay Asher
#54. Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.
Ridgely Torrence
#55. His chest was hard and tempting, with the scars from his move to save her carved forever on his skin.
Debra Anastasia
#56. You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
Criss Jami
#57. You can't look at someone and tell what they've been through. The scars that hurt the most are never visible on the surface.
~Caillen, page 243.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. stars are the scars of the universe
Ricky Maye
#59. Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.
Tom Verlaine
#60. The Scars You Love There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favourite.
Pleasefindthis
#61. I think maybe that is what love is. Seeing beyond the scars, to the person below the surface.
Cathy Maxwell
#62. Once your heart has been broken, it's never really heals. The wounds may heal, but the scars remain there forever. That delicate tissue must be guarded and protected at all cost.
K. Langston
#63. You might be adding a new scar to your collection, but it kind of matches the one on this side of your mouth, so at least they'll be symmetrical."
"I don't mind the scars." He shrugged, his eyes taking on a mischievous spark. "They hold better memories now than they used to.
Marissa Meyer
#64. The old creation lives by pride and retribution: I stand up for myself, and if someone gets in my way I try to get even. We've been there, done that, and got the scars to prove it.
N. T. Wright
#65. They said the doctors could tell from the scars."
"Stop."
"Scars can tell you how old the wound is."
"Stop."
"When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet."
"Sarah.
Amy Reed
#66. But while Sam may not know what happened, he's witnessed the scars. Not the physical scar, but the emotional ones. And those are far deeper. ****
Danielle Pearl
#67. The love of the family, the love of one person, can heal. It heals the scars left by society. A massive, powerful society.
Maya Angelou
#68. The scars of others should teach us caution.
St. Jerome
#69. Priests and nuns have had their chance with me. I'm still wearing the scars to prove it.) And so, during the weekend recess, the Meiers invited Cullivan to eat Sunday dinner with the prisoner in his cell. The opportunity to entertain his friend, play host
Truman Capote
#70. The contest is a lion fight. So chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don't lick your wounds. Celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You're in a lion's fight. Just because you didn't win doesn't mean you don't know how to roar.
Richard Webber
#71. There is a speculative battle innate to imagination this much we know, yet let us not 'bear the wounds'2 of battles' avoided. Petrified imaginaries are the scars of our aversion; calcified thought coagulated into magical formulas of destructive equivalence.
Anonymous
#72. And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.
Richard Selzer
#73. The defects of the mind are
like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#74. When a woman singles me out"- he leaned down to murmer at my ear- "it's because she wants to get fucked. She looks at the scars and tattoos and knows she'll get fucked hard"
I gasped, melting for him.
"is that what you wanted from me, Natalya"?
Kresley Cole
#75. Polite conversationalists leave no mark save the scars upon the Earth that could have been prevented had they stood their ground.
David Brower
#76. You reveal me. Then you heal me Of all the scars and strife. And when my life was spinning downward, You caught me. I'd forgotten how to smile, but You re-taught me.
Christine Feehan
#77. I kissed the scars on her skin. I still think you're beautiful, and I don't ever wanna lose my best friend
Pierce The Veil
#78. I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.
Sara Zarr
#79. Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.
Paulo Coelho
#80. But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.
Tammara Webber
#81. And you haven't been betrayed yet, Nick. You don't know what that's like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. It's time, Perry. He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the tiny inperfections that made him beautiful. Without a word, she turned and made her way downhill.
Veronica Rossi
#83. Why the war paint, Pix?
Because I can't stand the girl underneath....
"Why the tattoos ?"
Because I can't bear seeing the scars of my past.
Tillie Cole
#84. I will not play it safe!
I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life.
I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.
Steve Maraboli
#85. But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.
John Northcutt Young
#86. When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.
Stephen Richards
#87. It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.
Aisha Mirza
#88. I can heal the scars on your body, but I can't heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them
Anne Bishop
#89. The words wounded deeper than the bruises and the scars from any physical pain he inflicted on me. At least those wounds healed.
Serena Valentino
#90. The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as
obvious. In fact, even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man's emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.
Lundy Bancroft
#91. I am not afraid that you will hurt me. If you do, the scars won't last for eternity. People hurt each other all the time. Especially when they care for each other.
Leah Thomas
#92. The wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...
John Geddes
#93. Stretched and skewed
Tap of the 8-ball and the cue
Scratches fall through
They are the scars of you
Criss Jami
#94. Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
Os Guinness
#95. Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.
Michael Bassey
#96. The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#97. He hadn't hit her in several years, but when you've been beaten you never forget it. The bruises go away but the scars remain, deep, hidden, raw. You stay beaten. It takes a real coward to beat a woman.
John Grisham
#98. One cannot fight for so long without the scars building on one's soul.
J.A. London
#100. Warped asphalt, marred with shallow potholes and buckled with frost heaves - the scars of harsh winters and brief sweltering summers - unfolded under a shock of headlights like a story she could recite.
Mira Gibson
